Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.